There's a new pre-patch for 2.2.3, one that I was already going to make
the final 2.2.3, but I decided that I'm chicken after all, and that I
might as well let some people check that it's sane.
This pre-2.2.3 does:

 - Fix some silly NFS problems. Some of them can be quite bad: lost error
   notification of asynchronous writes, which can result in horrible
   problems (including lost email etc). Most people wouldn't ever notice,
   so don't panic, but forgetting about the error notification certainly
   counts as a brown paper bag.
 - Alpha should compile and work again
 - Various driver updates. This is actually the bulk of the patch, with
   IRDA updates, some scsi, video and sound driver updates etc.
 - The "mmap forgets about the file that was mapped" bug that has been
   discussed here. Only affected certain drivers.
 - shaper atomicity fixes
 - various minor TCP fixes
 - buffer growth fix and recursive IO memory reclaim fix from Andrea
 - network filter compiles ;)
 - unix gc fixes

Tell me if you see problems, because I'm going to release it as 2.2.3
unless people tell me otherwise..

                Linus